[mythtvnz] Possibly off topic - HDD recovery

[criggie]

On 12/06/14 20:20, David Shepherd wrote:
>
> On 12/06/2014 6:09 p.m., tortise wrote:
>> The recent Seagate HDD in question has about 10 click cycles on power 
>> up then spins down...
>>
> I'd suggest getting and running Spinrite ($US89 from www.grc.com) on 
> it.  If anything is going to recover data on it, that will. You 
> download an .iso, burn a CD or bootable USB and boot it up. It may 
> take a while to do it's work (like 24-48 hrs for 1TB drive) I've had 
> good experiences from using it.

Waste of time and money - the drive runs for under 30 seconds, clicking 
all the time.  Spinrite won't have hours in which to work.

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Criggie

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